Apples and Cider Vocabulary

Apple: fruit of an apple tree

            Blossom: the flower of a seed plant (see figure of a flower below)

Bud: a small lateral or terminal protuberance on the stem of a plant that may   

develop into a flower, leaf, or shoot; an incompletely opened flower

            Cider: raw juice of fruit (as apples) used as a beverage or for making other

            products

            Cross-pollination: the transfer of pollen from one flower to another flower.    

            Apple trees are self-incompatible and require two or more varieties of apple tree   

             for successful cross-pollination.

            Graft: to cause a scion to unite with a stock

            Grinder box: part of the apple cider making machine in which the apples are  

            chopped or ground up by a spinning, toothed wheel

            Ovary: the enlarged rounded usually basal portion of the pistil of a seed-bearing

            plant that bears the ovules (see figure)

            Ovule: an outgrowth of the ovary of a seed plant that is a megasporangium and

            encloses an embryo sac within a nucellus (see figure)

            Pistil: the ovule-bearing organ of a seed plant that consists of the ovary with its

appendages (see figure)

            Pollen: a mass of microspores in a seed plant appearing usually as a fine dust

            Pollination: transfer of pollen from a stamen to an ovule

            Pomace: the dry or pulpy residue of material (as fruit or seeds) from which a liquid

            has been pressed or extracted

            Press: part of the apple cider making machine that squeezes the juice from the

            ground up apple pieces

            Root: the usually underground part of a seed plant body that functions as an organ

            of absorption, aeration, and food storage or as a means of anchorage and support

            Scion: a detached living portion of a plant joined to a stock in grafting and usually

supplying solely aerial parts to a graft

            Seed: the fertilized, ripened ovule of a flowering plant containing an embryo and

            capable normally of germination to produce a new plant

            Sepal: one of the modified leaves at the base of a flower (see figure)

            Stamen: the organ of a flower that produces the male gamete; consists of an anther

            and a filament (see figure)

Stock: the main stem of a plant

            Sweating Apples: to allow apples to become soft after picking so more juice can

            be extracted